Bulletin-board.



No. 630,062. Patented Aug. l, I899.

H. K. LEE.

BULLETIN BOARD.

(Application filed Apr. 15, 1898.)

(No Model.)

UNr'rnn STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HERBERT KOSSOUTH LEE, OF OTTAIVA, CANADA, ASSIGNOR TO STEPHEN GEORGE THOMPSON, OF SAME PLACE.

BULLETIN-BOARD."

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 630,062, dated August 1, 1899.

Application filed April 15, 1898. Serial No. 677,687. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HERBERT KOSSOUTH LEE, miner, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, and a resident of Ottawa, in the county of Carleton, Province of Ontario, Oanada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bulletin-Boards, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in bulletin-boards more particularly adapted for newspaper use; and the object of my invention is to provide a board by means of which the bulletin is easily and quickly put in place or taken away, as the case may be; and it consists, essentially, of a suitable frame,to which is secured a suitable wire frame for keeping the bulletin in place, as hereinafter more particularly explained.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my bulletin-board. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the board.

In the drawings like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in each figure.

A is the top of the bulletin-board, B B the side supports, and O is the body of the board.

D is a cross piece near the upper end of the board, and E is a cross-piece at the lower end of the board.

F is a wire frame upon which are strung wires G. The frame F is suitably hinged near the lower end of the board at ff.

H is the bulletin, which is placed between the wire frame F and the body of the board 0.

I is a groove extending around the body'of the board C within the cross-pieces D and E and within the side supports B B. It will be seen that the wire frame F normally rests in this slot.

The bulletin is made the exact size of the body of the board 0, which is bounded by the groove I-that is, its edges do not extend over the groove I.

J is a space between the cross-piece D and the top of the bulletin-board A. Vithin this space will be printed permanently the names of the newspapers which will use the boards. L is a space reserved near the upper end of the bulletin. In this space is printed the date upon which the paper was issued and also suitable advertisements. The rest of the space of the bulletin will be given up to any general use to which the papers may see fit to put it to, as is generally the case.

Having now described the principal parts of my invention, I shall describe its use.

As before stated, the wire frame F is swung on hinges f f and the paper placed in position. On reference to Fig. 2 it will be seen that the frame F when descending into the groove I bends the wires G, as shown at 9, Fig. 2, over the edge of the groove 1, thus tightening the Wires G and increasing the pressure against the paper and effectually gripping the paper and preventing it from being displaced while so held. It must be clearly'understood that the bulletin is held in position bythe means above described and that the frame F when pushed well into the grooves I I is tightly held in that position by means of the said frame springing slightly when inserted into the grooves.

It will of course be understood that I can, if necessary, make the body 0 of the bulletin-board with a surface slightly convex, so that the wires G G will have greater tension against its surface.

From the above specification it will be seen that my board is simple in construction and that it obviates the necessity of pasting the bulletin onto any convenient board, as is usual.

\Vhat I claim as my invention is- 1. In combination a bulletin-board having a groove therein with its side walls at right angles to the face of the board, and a wire frame having cross-wires, said frame being adapted to be sprung into said groove to draw the cross -wires over the edge of I the inner walls of the groove whereby said wires are drawn taut and pressed firmly against the face of the board, substantially as described.

2. In combination the backing-board having a recessed portion on the upper part of the face thereof, a groove in the board at the bottom of said recessed portion, a continua- Wires are stretched and pressed firmly against tion of said groove extending around the the face of the board to retain the bulletin in sides and bottom edges of the board, the Walls position.

of said groove extending at right angles to HERBERT KOSSOUTH LEE. 5 the face of the board and a wire frame hav- WVitnesses:

ing cross-bars, said frame being adapted to A. M. THOMPSON,

be sprung into said groove whereby said cross- EGERTON R. CASE. 

